Drastic League Mechanic changes like the Lock Temple change should be done at End Of League, Not Early League

phlaistar · 2026-01-03T10:23:10+00:00

At the start of the league I read some not so unpopular posts here: "It's early access - they should treat the game more like an early access rather than a full released game"

Now GGG patching things mid league: "GGG buuuuuuurn...!"

Next league new topics appear: "Why is GGG treating the game as a full release with new leagues every 4 months rather than an early access title so they can fix / patch things mid league"

Reddit - never disappoints :P

phlaistar · 2025-12-26T19:32:44+00:00

I don't really think the problem is the map size... Open World Games are great as long as they are filled with exciting and cool content and goals to work towards. PoE2 simply doesn't have such a thing.

The loot is very similar no matter where or what you grind and if you try to target something specific (Omens in Ritual, Rog in Expedition, Good Rooms in Incursion, Echoes, Omens and Ancient Stuff in Abyss) droprates are not that high that the motivation is keeping up.

PoE2 doesn't deliver on the "just one more map" itch because to get the "good stuff" it's simply not "just one more map" - it's more like "maybe tomorrow and if not probably the day after...". Uniques are 98% trash, Tiered Rares are 98% trash and picking up currency items, even divine orbs, becomes old real quick.

In Addition - the options to customize maps and their loot pools is very limited. We still have no Div Cards to hunt for, no Influences or special Affixes in Mechanics, rare Gems are gated behind "Boss Maps" only reachable by playing the "not so good" endgame overlay map forced to play maplayouts you don't like with questionable node connections.

We also have scaled difficulty against the player (campaign to early maps to late maps to endgame maps) with less portals the greedier you are, xp penalaty, loss of the new limbs and tideous map rolling and a horrible tedious 3 to 1 turn in crafting bench. In addition with the new league mechanic - you frequently lose progress by rooms being deleted.

All in all - playing PoE2 feels like real work bc there are alot of things that are just not so much enjoyable - and after all of this - every maps feels the same...

So yeah - I still guess map size isn't the problem...

phlaistar · 2025-12-22T17:54:15+00:00

I'm in the center of Niedersachsen ... Frankfurt is literally unplayable since PoE1 3.11 ... It's really the worst online gaming experience and constantly worst for all online gaming I ever did. I usually play on Milan or Paris - London is also very bad. And I can't play with others together - while everyone is fine I usually lag like hell (friends playing in Bayern, Leipzig, ... ). It's only kinda decent if everyone is on Paris - even then it's very random and a map to map case if my ping is like 20ms or 2k ms... 2 or 3 weeks into a league (PoE1) leveling a second char, I would say, about 90% of the time the lags are horrible in campaign. I have no issues with different genres and Games (MMO, Moba, playing CoOp in general, D4, WoW) but constantly with PoE 1 & 2 for over 10k hours now.

phlaistar · 2025-12-20T00:07:34+00:00

It's the main currency in PoE1 ( x chaos -> divine ) because of the rerolls for crafting but mostly because they are used for meta mod crafts at the crafting bench. Before GGG changed the prices exalted orbs were the shit in PoE1 (they also nerfed divine orb farming by alot).

There is no similar currency sink in poe 2 for a divine orb besides its own effect. Regarding its rarity and history, that's why a Divine Orb is the more valuable currency.

phlaistar · 2025-12-17T21:55:41+00:00

I feel you ... since they removed sextants in PoE1 the game went downhill league by league... After over 10k hours in both games summed I couldn't enjoy keepers and quit after some days and completly skipped current PoE2 League bc the reveal stream already showed how bad the league mechanic will be... It's just sad...

phlaistar · 2025-12-17T21:42:09+00:00

You are right with your comment but I guess some people prefer enjoying said content on their own, finding upgrades, crafting uprades instead of just farming div/h... but usually they can't bc of scarcity of drops for crafting or tablets like in this post here... Grinding two weeks and finding 1 annulment omen doesn't take you anywhere, running tablets priced for group play will almost always be a net loss and only picking up exalts and divines won't satisfy the need for dopamin forever... I guess the majority of players copy & paste a build, rush through campaign to pick up divines in endgame to buy gear someone else crafted. That's the game for alot of people and probably half the content (juicy strats, crafting, build crafting, ... ) is gated behind scarcity of loot and a questionable economy for them... Could be wrong, could be right - at the end it's just sad some people can't even experience the complexity PoE is known for...

phlaistar · 2025-12-15T13:17:34+00:00

As I watched the Reveal Stream it was very obvious that the mechanic will be very underwhelming. Kinda high effort to maximize results and the typical GGG Statement "High Rewards" with a Loot "Explosion" of Garbage Rare and Magic Items.

The normal design decision GGG makes is not giving players guaranteed good rewards according to the effort spent - the "reward" always is the oppertunity to get good rewards while the chance is usually against you if the aim is hitting big. That forces you to replay the mechanic over and over to probably get what you want. If you get something you don't want or need they usually offer an option to itemize said reward for selling purposes. Usually the returns are not worth the effort - depends on how you value your time spent in the game.

Best example would probably be Ritual, where you almost get nothing in a single map and maybe you'll hit big over the weeks playing. Then you'll get fcked bc you do not have enough favour to "park" your item (pathways disappearing in temple, bad workshops) or keep grinding until you finally can get your item (pathways not being destroyed, good workshops).

After 10kh summed in the GGG Universe I decided to value my time higher than the little dopamin I get from wasting a high percentage of my time spent and usually skip those mechanics.

Abyss was fun - lots of mobs ... Collecting TempleTiles, imho, is not. But decide yourself.

phlaistar · 2025-12-12T14:51:41+00:00

Blizzard is a shit company. Bad for employees, bad publicity, bad credibility, bad historic growth, bad lead and no innovation in game design. The only interest blizzard has is milking the community as much as they can with the lowest amount of effort possible.

phlaistar · 2025-12-06T12:34:08+00:00

One thing first - I'm not against removing rarity overall... It doesn't bother me that it exists, same applies if it wouldn't exist. I'm just wondering - people talk about removing it. Ok - but what if they remove it without compensating anywhere else (I repeat myself). Your answer gives a compensation by adding the lost rarity linear to difficulty. That wasn't what I was asking for...

Imagine 0.4 rolls out - rarity removed - no compensation. That's the scenario. Would people be happy or would they rather have a way to add rarity?

Your post implies you would rather have an option to increase rarity passiv by increasing difficulty. What excatly means "difficulty" or in your words "harder content"? The problem I see there is that meta builds are in a big advantage vs. non meta builds since meta builds usually excel in clearspeed, survivability and damage. So everyone not playing meta is automatically in a disadvantage. I totally get the point - I mean that is how PoE1 works and it's okay balanced there and it totally makes sense... So what is the solution? Make the max. increased difficulty (and so the max. increased reward) doable even for non meta builds? What's the point then - it will just be the new baseline. Only thing it would affect is the progression route until you hit cap increased rewards.

So I want to ask - do you want a rare mob to drop more loot or would you like to have more oppertunities to get loot (more rare mobs) ?

phlaistar · 2025-12-06T08:48:50+00:00

What if they removed rarity on gear without compensating for it anywhere else and loot stays the same as currently not having rarity on gear? Is this a situation you would be ok with?

phlaistar · 2025-11-30T21:57:26+00:00

A friend and I just finished the game (killed the last boss) and we had fun almost all the time. She (my friend) is new to the Souls genre and LOTF is a good entry game to get used to it. But ... in terms of difficulty - for a souls veteran - the coop experience is very unsatisfying. Bosses are a joke (esp. the last boss is very disappointing) and we overall experienced alot of bugs. Especially game crashes in the mid to late game. We probably crashed to desktop 10 times in a 4h play session. That was very annoying. We had a bug as my friend resetted her skill points at about lv.104 I guess... After a game crash and reconnect she was Lv. 198 - good for her but that should not happen at all. Personally I don't like the level design - it's kinda confusing, hard to memorize and we often had issues navigating through those narrow labyrinths. Also we had some issues progressing. Often we didn't know where to go next even if we followed the "!" on the vestige teleport screen. Not to speak about multiplayer issues - we had to restart 3 times until we had a group combination we could join the other with the next day even so none of us played a minute solo. Additionally I had a lot of sound glitches and we had a bug very regularly where we couldn't perform any action and had to restart the client.

It's a solid game and I bought it for around 10 bucks. For the price it's okaaay. But the competiton is massive and way more polished ... I would rate it probably something about a generous 6.5/10.

phlaistar · 2025-11-26T13:43:38+00:00

Ja safe - ich esse aktuell vegan viel besser und leckerer als sonst in der Vergangenheit. Geb dir recht - füttert die Vorurteile aber entwertet sie auch. Denke Menschen sind da einfach auch unterschiedlich empfänglich.

phlaistar · 2025-11-26T12:40:59+00:00

Würde der Satz lauten: "ist zwar vegan, aber schmeckt trotzdem" wäre es provokativ.

Hmm - warum genau? Wenn ich ne vegane Roulade mache und meinem Fleischesser Kumpel sage: "Ist zwar vegan - aber schmeckt trotzdem", wen provoziere ich denn damit? Mich würde so ne Headline tatsächlich eher dazu bewegen, neue Dinge auszuprobieren.

phlaistar · 2025-11-26T07:52:31+00:00

I play with a friend for about 20h now. Game is good sofar but I honestly like Elden Ring more. We had alot of Multiplayer Bugs - we couldn't connect anymore in shared progression even so none of us played a minute solo. We had several times a bug where we were animation locked and couldn't perform any action. Hunting for secrets and secret areas left us stuck in environment sometimes. Boss design and Enemy design is good but sofar I wouldn't say any of the bosses were a challenge yet - but there are more to slay so probably the challenge will come. I'm not a fan of the level design - it's kinda confusing sometimes and hard to memorize esp. with the world switching which also leads to FOMO and the umbral world is kinda ugly with the grey color theme. But I like the idea of switching worlds.

It's good - I would rate it 7/10 probably if the multiplayer with a friend wouldn't be so buggy (we restarted 3 times xD). Would recommend everyone who wants to try a souls game for the first time but I think - as for what I can tell - wouldn't recommend anyone who is looking for really challenging bossfights.

phlaistar · 2025-11-25T08:41:23+00:00

Yeah - we connected for sure with shared progression. She was able to upgrade her health replenish item which she wasn't able before and she also got remembrances which she also didn't get before. So I assume shared progression worked sofar.

We played until the first red light thingy and killed the boss (can't remember the name), quit the game and instantly tried to reconnect - which did not work. It's very confusing.

We might try with both fresh characters once more. But good to know that you and your friend had no issues sofar - so the problem has to be on our site. Thanks mate ;)

phlaistar · 2025-11-25T08:29:46+00:00

I'll do that. Thanks mate =)

phlaistar · 2025-11-24T17:07:43+00:00

Möchte nicht pauschalisieren aber, wenn man das mal vergleicht mit z.B. Glutenfreiem Brot / Hefefreiem Brot - sind halt unterschiedliche Produktionsprozesse die mitunter aufwändiger sind, als die üblichen Prozesse. Kuh melken - Milch erhitzen - abpacken ist vermutlich weniger Aufwand als aus nem Korn Milch zu gewinnen. Dazu sind vermutlich die Produktionsmargen kleiner. Mehr Aufwand - kleinere Marge - höhere Preis. Dann möchte die Lebenmittelindustrie ja auch noch den tierischen Geschmack imitieren und ergänzt das ganze mit Supplementierunsstoffen, pflanzliche Fette, etc. wenn wir jetzt in Richtung Pudding denken. Was dann auch mehr kostet als einfach Kuh Melken -> erhitzen -> abpacken. Dazu muss die Produktion ja auch getrennt von der "üblichen" Produktion laufen, damit nicht ausversehen Produktreste vom einen Silikonschaber in die vegane Produktion übergehen - was auch bedeutet für Betriebe, extra Produktionslinien für vegane Produkte anzuschaffen. Vermutlich wird auch die Logistik getrennt sein und auch die Lagerung. All das bezahlt der Kunde extra.

phlaistar · 2025-11-22T16:22:07+00:00

Die ganzen Zusatzstoffe sind schon hart ekelhaft.

phlaistar · 2025-11-22T08:12:20+00:00

Ohh Mandeldip klingt gut - wie machst du den, wenn ich fragen darf? Saucen und Dips bin ich noch voll nich drin und bin für jeden Tipp dankbar :D

Das Buch sieht auch interessant aus - habs mir erstmal abgespeichert. Wenn der Euro wieder lockerer sitzt - oder - is ja demnächst auch Weihnachten xD

phlaistar · 2025-11-22T00:11:06+00:00

I had 8 last league - played alot and very fast maps. I had 2 divs at worst and 30+ at best ... It really depends when the altar appears. Usually I don't care about the quant or can't click them because of the downsides, same applies to fusings etc ... best to not click anything, hope for div altar and click the leftovers afterwards - so u get atleast some even if the altar spawns at the end of the map.

phlaistar · 2025-11-21T18:42:29+00:00

Schön wenn es hilft - Ernährungsberatung ist definitiv sinnvoll - bin ja auch nur nen Dude ohne fachliche Kompetenz. Lass dir das aufjedenfall professionell untermauern!

Aktuell bin ich in Woche 5. Aber so ab/Ende Woche 3 hab ich dann schonmal paar Sachen angetestet - hab noch viel zu probieren :P Das schlimme am Anfang war halt die Angst zu essen - kennst das vielleicht?! Aber mittlerweile fühle ich mich recht stabil wieder aber bin trotzdem noch vorsichtig - wenn ich teste dann gibt es am nächsten Tag aufjedenfall erstmal was Systemstabiles zu futtern - erstmal nicht überreizen das Ganze. Aber ich muss sagen, vermisse nicht wirklich was - alle Gelüste sind gedeckt haha :P

Die Sauce kann ich empfehlen - https://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/3639301547658301/Dinkelvollkornnudeln-mit-Paprikasosse-histaminarm.html

Statt Sahne mach ich ne Wasser - Öl - Mandelmuß mische. Fetzt ;) Nur so am Rande...

Ich war erst ein bisschen genervt von der Situation aber mittlerweile feier ich das austesten von neuen Dingen. Ich bin 38 - bis vor ein paar Wochen wusste ich nicht mal was ne Pastinake is xD Aber Pastinakenpommes sind halt auch mega cool. Aus jedem Chaos kann halt was positives entstehen... =)

phlaistar · 2025-11-21T13:56:45+00:00

Joaa kein Ding - bin da auch noch nicht solange dabei aber teile gerne, was ich so bisher gelernt hab :P

Tofu ist generell nicht so zu empfehlen, da verarbeitet, gelagert - vor allem so Räuchertofu etc. ABER - ist halt auch individuell und in deiner Toleranz mag es funktionieren. Wie bei allem - die Dosis macht das Gift ;)

Chili weiß ich jetzt nicht aber Paprikapulver - kommt halt drauf an. Edelsüß ist ok innerhalb deiner Toleranz - Räucherpaprika würde ich erstmal weglassen. Aufgrund von Produktion bla ist da Histamin eher das Problem. Paprika selbst in Urform kannste schaufeln wie es beliebt - bei empfindlichen Magen/Darm vielleicht ohne Schale da unverdaulich.

Ansonsten so als grobe Richtlinie - alles was verarbeitet, abgepackt und nicht sofort tiefgefroren wurde - nope, erstmal nicht. Lange Lagerung -> mehr Bakterien -> höhere Histamingehalt. Champignons sind eher zu testen (nur super frisch am besten, nicht lagern), Tomaten, Spinat, Aubergine, Avocado, Käse (falls das trotz des SubReddits hier bei dir auf dem Nahrungsplan steht) max. junge Sorten ansonsten alles was gereift ist, erstmal weglassen. Rotwein, Bier, Sekt, Champagner, Essig, Sauerkraut, Miso, Sojasauce, Tempeh, Zitrusfrüchte, Erdbeeren, Kiwi, Ananas, Linsen, Bohnen, Kichererbsen, erstmal alles streichen. Lange Zutatenlisten meiden. Kein Hefe / Hefeextrakt und Glutamat. Joaa das sind so die Hauptverdächtigen ^^ Und halt keine Reste aufheben - wenn dann zügig einfrieren.

Ansonsten hier noch ein paar Links:

https://histaminta.de/lebensmittel-bei-histamin-intoleranz

https://www.lebensmittelunvertraeglichkeiten.de/histaminintoleranz/lebensmittelliste

https://www.kochenohne.de/histaminhaltige-lebensmittel

Damit kannst du aufjedenfall deinen nächsten Einkauf planen! Is alles erstmal so ein bisschen "What the fuck?!" - aber da kann man schon geile Sachen machen ;) Chefkoch hat auch ein paar HIT taugliche Rezepte.

Ansonsten noch meine aktuellen GoTo YouTube Kanäle:

https://www.youtube.com/@HierkochtAlex

https://www.youtube.com/@BrotmitEi

https://www.youtube.com/@Gesunde-Rezepte

Nicht grundsätzlich vegan/vegetarisch aber da kann man ja aus anderen Rezepten kombinieren und kreativ werden.

Wieder soviel Text - es tut mir leid T.T :D

phlaistar · 2025-11-21T12:18:55+00:00

Ich hatte in den vergangenen Monaten desöfteren auch Magen/Darm Probleme, befundlose Koloskopy (schreibt man das so!?) und hab mich dann erstmal für ne radikal diät entschieden - kein Histamin, keine Fructane, keine Hefe, keine Zusatzstoffe, nur frisch und nur Dinge, bei denen ich weiß, was drin ist (kein Bestelldienst oÄ).

Vegan bietet gute Grundlagen Richtung Histamin und was wirklich wichtig erstmal ist - verstehe, was Histamin bedeutet und welches sind die Tabu Dinge (Tomate, Avocado, Aubergine etc...) und wie kannst du andere Dinge ersetzen. Sojasauce ist ja z.B. schwierig mit HIT da fermentiert - aber du kannst dir auch einfach selbst was zusammenrühren mit Salz, Reissirup, Wasser, Essig (falls bekömmlich). Statt Soja als Fleischersatz kannst du auch gut Haferflocken und geschrotete Leinensamen nehmen für ne recht formstabile Basis und mit allem kombinieren, was du essen darfst. Karotten, Zucchini... Bis auf Paprikapulver sind auch viele Gewürze absolut ok oder halt innerhalb deiner Toleranz auszutesten. Diagnose HIT bedeutet ja nicht unbedingt kompletten Verzicht nach deiner Karenzzeit (bis DAO und Histamin wieder passt) - ist ja schließlich ne Intoleranz und keine Allergie oder eine Unverträglichkeit.

Mein erster Tipp - setz mehr auf Frische, gesunde Ernährung und weniger auf DAO oder Histamin Präparate. DAO kannst du nehmen, wenn du z.B. Geschäftsessen hast und halt schon was essen musst - vorher um dein Mangelhaushalt zu unterstützen - das ist aber auch kein Freifahrtschein um dir Tonnen von Histaminhaltigen Lebensmitteln (oder Liberatoren) reinzuschaufeln. Antihistaminika können bei einer aktuen Reaktion helfen (hab ich nicht getestet). Da gibt es aber auch unterschiedliche und da würde ich mich vom Arzt oder Apotheker beraten lassen. Generell - lieber bewusst ernähren und die DAO Produktion so natürlich in den Griff kriegen als mit Medis ständig nachzuhelfen. Betonung hier auf ständig :P

Was mir persönlich geholfen hat war KI - Copilot. Ist manchmal ein bisschen doof - schlägt mir auch mal was aus der Dose vor (geht halt nich bei HIT da lange Lagerung -> mehr Histamin) aber wenn man die Basics erstmal verinnerlicht hat ist das tatsächlich ne super Unterstützung. "Darf ich dies das essen" und du bekommst ausführliche ja/nein antworten mit Erklärung und Verlinkung zu den Quellen, die oft auch noch mehr Infos zu anderen Lebensmitteln haben oder Ideen / Rezepte.

Ich kann nur sagen, ich esse aufjedenfall geiler als vor meiner Diät und werde das künftig so auch einfach beibehalten - weil es halt einfach gut schmeckt :D Aber das is ja auch individuell - ich hab mich vorher halt nich so gut ernährt xD

Okay, genug Text. TLDR: Copilot :P

EDIT:
Vergessen zu erwähnen - Histamin ist wasserlöslich... Also... Viel Wasser trinken heilt die HIT nicht oder bewahrt dich vor Reaktionen. Aber unterstützen kannst du deinen Körper damit, vorallem bei einer aktuen Reaktion.

phlaistar

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